Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750727AbWHGL3E (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750745AbWHGL3E (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:29:04 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.136]:32373 "EHLO mtagate3.uk.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbWHGL3D (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:29:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] simplify update_times (avoid jiffies/jiffies_64 aliasing problem) From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: schwidefsky@googlemail.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, ak@muc.de In-Reply-To: <20060807.011319.41196590.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> References: <6e0cfd1d0608020550k7ae2c44dg94afbe56d66b@mail.gmail.com> <20060804.005352.128616651.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> <6e0cfd1d0608040702h15371d31q1c3d1c305c3da424@mail.gmail.com> <20060807.011319.41196590.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM Corporation Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:28:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1154950115.6721.34.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1326 Lines: 42 On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:13 +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:02:43 +0200, "Martin Schwidefsky" wrote: > > Good start, now you only have the change the 30+ calls to do_timer in > > the various architecture backends. > > OK, then this is a patch contains the changes. > Adding S390 maintainer Martin Schwidefsky to CC. > > This patch is against current git tree, so does not contains a change > to arch/avr32 which is in mm tree. I can create a patch against mm > tree if expected. > > > [PATCH] cleanup do_timer and update_times > > Pass ticks to do_timer() and update_times(). > > This also make a barrier added by > 5aee405c662ca644980c184774277fc6d0769a84 needless. > > Also adjust x86_64 and s390 timer interrupt handler with this change. > > Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky -- blue skies, Martin. Martin Schwidefsky Linux for zSeries Development & Services IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/